Driveline R&D Podcast

Live Episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!

Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/h-9kxsmVEcw

Joined today with guest Denton Sagerman, Director of Baseball Ops and Player Development at Indiana Baseball

Today for episode 30 we're talking shop with Denton and what player development looks like within college baseball.

Link to the hosts' Twitters:

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Live Episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!

Live show replay link here: https://youtu.be/zyDTemYvT_E

Today for episode 29 we're following up after last weeks episode on PitchAI and discussing some upcoming some exciting upcoming developments that we're working on with the tool! We dive into a Cara Chat on APIs and why we developed them. Lindley is going to discuss some internal investigations on biomechanical correlations related to increasing layback. And Caravan finishes the episode off with a journal article review on calculating pitch quality!

Journal Article link:

https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/jqas/15/1/article-p59.xml

Link to the hosts' Twitters:

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Live Episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!

Live show replay link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtF26aYMrg

Joined today with guest Dr. Mike Sonne!

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrMikeSonne 

Today for episode 28 we are covering all things PitchAI! From what it is and how it came about, to use cases and example report walkthroughs! 

Link to the hosts' Twitters: 

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

First ever live episode of the Driveline R&D Podcast with Anthony Brady (out for today), Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley!  

Today for episode 27 we have some start of the season sabermetric looks, some discussion on Hawkeye, a study article review, and updates from the last two weeks since last week was a guest episode. Caravan also interviews Kyle for about 20 minutes about his background all the way back to his worst grade in high school.  

Link to Quiet Eye Study: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01565/full  

Link to the hosts' Twitters: 

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Rachel Balkovec is currently a minor league hitting coach for the New York Yankees; formerly a strength and conditioning coach for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Houston Astros. Rachel talks about some of her stops throughout her professional background, the importance of participating and immersing herself into what she is teaching as a coach, her early interest in data-driven coaching, and much much more.   

Link to the mentioned gaze tracking study (moon-landing study): https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2020.00003  Frans Bosch constraints led approach: https://fransbosch.systems/  

Rachel's Socials: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_rachelbalkovec 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.balkovec/ 

2:15 Introducing Rachel 

4:00 Covid shutdown exercise adventures 

7:05 Takeaways from her professional background stops 

13:25 How Rachel approaches risk throughout her career 

15:10 The constraints led approach in the Netherlands 

18:50 Rachel's early interest in data-driven coaching 

21:20 The importance of understanding data collection abstractly 

22:40 Projects that Rachel wishes she could complete that got cut short 

25:45 Rachel's thoughts on the growth of Softball player development 

35:10 Why Rachel participates in the things she coaches 

38:25 The value of understanding failure 

43:10 The role of participation on group culture 

47:20 Favorite/least favorite part of working with us  

Link to the hosts' twitters: 

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan 

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 25 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley.   Timestamps: 3:45 Upcoming Podcast News 11:10 Model Improvements for Youth players in Swing Profile  14:30 Ongoing R&D work with Motus 34:35 Training Floor Research Integration 41:50 Talk about how ROM request -> investigation started 45:30 Specific BTS of an example of R&D requests 53:10 ROM & injury research investigations 59:00 Significant ROM ANOVA results talk and discussion

In Episode 25 we talk exciting future podcast plans (Caravan offers $100 for the most hardcore of listeners!), general updates (including improving the Exp EV/LA model in Swing Profile for Youth Players) and what we've been doing in-gym as MotusValidation (link to our older peer-reviewed study of Motus validation) and what the landscape looks like there in future Motus research projects. 

Then Brady sheds some light on the current existing workflow of R&D requests from the training floors and proposed improvements -- we pull the curtains back a bit and talk general bottlenecks when it comes to requests. Then we finish off with an ongoing project stemming from training floor requests and talk Part I of Caravan's investigation relating ROM, injury designations, and motion capture joint kinetics. It's a loooot of wide (many columns) but small (not that many rows!) data talk in this episode!

Link to some of the repeated measures correlation analysis the guys talk about in relation to Motus validation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5383908/

Link to the hosts' twitters: Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ 

Episode 24 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley.

Timestamps: 4:30 Dan's Background 8:55 R&D Growth throughout Driveline history 16:25 How Cara learned from Dan 22:00 Dan's judgments on social medial game 32:15 Growth of College Baseball Analytics 49:50 New Unexplored Areas of Analytics 55:10 Best/Worst Thing about Co-Managing Analytics with Cara + quick fire Q&A

In Episode 24 we have our first guest! Caravan's fellow co-Manager of Baseball Analytics at Driveline, Dan Aucoin, hops on to chat about his background, his perspective on working in pro ball, the present and future of baseball analytics, some reflection on utilizing social media to push forward research, and some (slightly censored) behind the scenes stories of working with Caravan!

Link to the hosts' (AND guest) twitters: Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9 Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_ Dan Aucoin: https://twitter.com/@dan_aucoin13 

Episode 23 of the Driveline R&D (Research and Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley.

Timestamps:

9:15 ABBS Conference

22:25 R&D Content Creation

30:05 Cara Chats - When to Use Linear Regression

44:55 Weighted Ball Study Review

The episode begins with a few updates and announcements, and then we quickly get into the American Baseball Biomechanics Society (ABBS) Conference that happened last week. 

Kyle discusses some new R&D content initiatives to help showcase R&D output better, Caravan talks about when it's appropriate to use linear regression, and Anthony reviews a new weighted ball research study that was recently published.

Link to Cara chats segment on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/2IFbU8URzNk

Link to weighted ball article review on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/zd0GmIdH_vA

Link to the study we discussed:

https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1941738120925728

Documentation for the regression function, loess(), that Caravan talks about when referring to locally weighted regression:

https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stats/versions/3.6.2/topics/loess

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 22 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

Youtube Link to full podcast

Start of the show includes some weekly work updates, a quick scope of an upcoming SPM blog.  Kyle goes into some more lower half pitching research looking at pelvis and counter rotation in the biomechanics data. Caravan discusses R vs. Python as a coding language. And Caravan wraps the episode by breaking down Alan Nathan's most recent Batted Ball Flight article linked here

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_

Episode 21 of the Driveline R&D (Research & Drinks) Podcast! With Anthony Brady, Alex Caravan, and Kyle Lindley

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Start of the show includes some weekly work updates, a couple life updates, and some description of the new facility and our resources there as we open up Driveline Washington.

Kyle gets into some lower half pitching research that he completed last week, Cara chats about data scaling, standardizing, and normalizing and when to use them, and the review a research article looking at biomechanical variability and command

Link to the article Cara references in his chat

Link to the hosts' twitters:

Anthony Brady: https://twitter.com/BaseballFreak_9

Alex Caravan: https://twitter.com/Alex_Caravan

Kyle Lindley: https://twitter.com/kylelindley_